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Ervin Wilson (born June 11, 1928 in Chihuahua, Mexico) is a Mexican
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
/American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 (dual citizen) music theorist
Music theory

Music theory is the field of study that deals with how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It identifies patterns that govern composer techniques....
 whose work, outside of the academic community, is noted for its breadth and originality. Despite his avoidance of academia, Wilson has been remarkably influential on those interested in microtonal music
Microtonal music

Microtonal music is music using microtones ? musical interval of less than an Equal Temperament semitone.Microtonal music can also refer to music which uses intervals not found in the Western system of 12 equal intervals to the octave....
 and just intonation
Just intonation

In music, just intonation is any musical tuning in which the frequency of notes are related by ratios of whole numbers. Any interval tuned in this way is called a just interval; in other words, the two notes are members of the same harmonic series ....
, especially in the areas of scale, keyboard, and notation design.






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Ervin Wilson (born June 11, 1928 in Chihuahua, Mexico) is a Mexican
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
/American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 (dual citizen) music theorist
Music theory

Music theory is the field of study that deals with how music works. It examines the language and notation of music. It identifies patterns that govern composer techniques....
 whose work, outside of the academic community, is noted for its breadth and originality. Despite his avoidance of academia, Wilson has been remarkably influential on those interested in microtonal music
Microtonal music

Microtonal music is music using microtones ? musical interval of less than an Equal Temperament semitone.Microtonal music can also refer to music which uses intervals not found in the Western system of 12 equal intervals to the octave....
 and just intonation
Just intonation

In music, just intonation is any musical tuning in which the frequency of notes are related by ratios of whole numbers. Any interval tuned in this way is called a just interval; in other words, the two notes are members of the same harmonic series ....
, especially in the areas of scale, keyboard, and notation design. Among his developments are Moments Of Symmetry, Combination Product Sets, Golden Horograms, scales based on recurrence relations (scales of "Mt. Meru"), and mapping scales to the generalized keyboard
Generalized keyboard

Generalized keyboards are musical Keyboard with regular, tile-like arrangements usually with rectangular or hexagonal keys, and were developed for performing music in different Tuning ....
. He cites Augusto Novaro and Joseph Yasser as influences.

Wilson also breeds corn, and is sometimes credited as the first to suggest the use of blue corn in tortilla chip
Tortilla chip

File:A girl enjoying Pico de Gallo for the first time.jpgA tortilla chip is a snack food made from maize tortillas, which are cut into wedges and then fried ....
s.

Musicians influenced by Wilson

  • Waren Burt
  • Kraig Grady
    Kraig Grady

    Kraig Grady is a US-Australian composer/sound artist. He has composed and performed with an ensemble of microtonal instruments of his own design and also worked as a shadow puppeteer, tuning theorist, filmmaker, world music radio DJ and concert promoter....
  • Harry Partch
    Harry Partch

    File:Harry Partch Institute-6.jpgHarry Partch was an United Statesn composer and musical instrument creator. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with microtonality scale s, writing much of his music for custom-made instruments that he built himself, tuned in 11-limit just intonation....
  • Rod Poole
  • Emil Richards
    Emil Richards

    Emil Richards, born Emilio Radocchia on September 2 1932 in Hartford, Connecticut, is a percussionist who plays a variety of different percussion instruments....
  • Marcus Satellite
  • Daniel James Wolf
    Daniel James Wolf

    Daniel James Wolf is an American composer of serious music and a musicology.Wolf studied composition study with Gordon Mumma, Alvin Lucier, and La Monte Young, as well as musical tunings with Erv Wilson and Douglas Leedy and ethnomusicology....
  • Glen Prior
  • Greg Schiemer
  • Terumi Narushima


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